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Are Birdkeepers Really Being Priced Out?
Cage & Aviary Birds
|September 18, 2019
Is a shortage of affordable (i.e. cheap) quality stock hastening the hobby’s decline? DAVE BROWN expresses some doubts.
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RECENTLY, I got drawn into an age-old debate regarding the price people charge for exhibition birds. The fancier raising the subject was a novice exhibitor of several years standing and the initial question asked was: “What did we think were the reasons people were leaving the fancy and why couldn’t the fancy attract young people to join?”
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